The club has awarded grants to a total of 75 young students through the Cátedra Edavant
Villarreal CF awarded the Cátedra Endavant Villarreal CF sports scholarships to elite athletes from the Jaume I University (UJI) this Monday, in an event held at the Faculty of Health Sciences and attended by Paloma Masó, head of the Villarreal CF Endavant programme; Vicent Cervera, Vice-Rector for Infrastructure and Sustainability; and Carlos Hernando, Director of the Sports Service and of the Endavant Villarreal CF Sports Chair.
During the event, the Yellow club presented a total of 75 scholarships to athletes from the public university, with an annual financial allocation of 40,000 euros. The awarding of these scholarships began in the 2012/13 academic year and since then more than 600 scholarships have been granted to athletes studying at the Universitat Jaume I. The total accumulated investment amounts to 360,000 euros.
The athletes who received the scholarships belong to 17 different sports. The sport with the highest number of scholarship recipients is athletics, with 22 students, followed by football with 18. Next in number are athletes from swimming, handball, taekwondo and hockey. Other sports receiving support include aeronautics, judo, skating, basketball, chess, golf, weightlifting, karate, mountain and climbing, fencing and pelota.
The scholarships pursue a dual objective: on the one hand, to reward the academic performance of university student-athletes based on the average grade of their academic record and, on the other, to recognise their high sporting performance taking into account their activity or results in a specific sport. They also aim to finance part of the costs associated with studying the official degrees in which the student-athletes are enrolled.
About the Cátedra Endavant
The Cátedra Endavant, created through an agreement between the UJI and Villarreal CF in 2015 – although the collaboration between both entities began in 2012 – has the main objectives of promoting training, research, knowledge dissemination and innovation in the field of sport, as well as encouraging sports participation and competition among university students through training grants.
